New research shows that the printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg, helped spread conspiracies that fueled the Salem ...

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what ...

In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a federal holiday at the urging of prominent Italian American ...

It’s one of the oldest documented parts of our state’s history, and also one of the darkest. The Connecticut Witch Trials ...

The Connecticut Witch Trials occurred from 1647 to 1663, more than four decades before the trials in Salem, Massachusetts. “The witch trials in Connecticut were extremely deadly. The first seven ...

More specifically, that means the Salem witch trials of 1692, wherein young women were convicted of being something that does not actually exist. More than a dozen of them were hung but that has ...

Inquisition After Dark, on October 19, 26 and 31, gives visitors (18 and over) the chance to navigate winding corridors concealing sinister characters and edge-of-the-seat trials (tickets (£16.26 ...

The stories primarily feature White individuals, reflecting the demographics of those involved in the witch trials. One of the first three women accused during the Salem witch trials is a enslaved ...

Drag the witch! Rip off your bonnets and sneak into the woods of Puritan New England, where bible thumpers and booty bumpers rendezvous in secret gothic gaiety. Cast out those prudish finger-pointers ...